June 26, 2009

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News today is that despite his public posturing against using taxpayer dollars to help his state, Gov. Bubbly in Love did not turn down taxpayer's help to finance his visits to his mistress.

I hope they nail him good for that, and Edwards, too, if he used campaign bucks for whassername. Vitter has never had to explain how he paid for very high-cost nookie at the same time he was campaigning, living on a lawmaker's salary, having a passle of kids and building a new McMansion.

Really, I can spell. That should be the quintessentially of quintessential summer songs.

Thanks for clearing that up because until your clarification I had no idea whatsover what you were saying.

When it comes to summer songs, I still think of the Cars, particularly the Heartbeat City album. That was the best summer for me, first steady girlfriend who really liked me, hanging out at the dunes and getting more nookie than I thought was humanely possible.

We need a moment of prayer for Mark Sanford who now faces life without either his strong wife or his sophisticated lover. His perfect life may be the third death in the Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett triad. All three were about 50 years old and Baby Boomers to the core.

News today is that despite his public posturing against using taxpayer dollars to help his state, Gov. Bubbly in Love did not turn down taxpayer's help to finance his visits to his mistress

Beth is this really news anymore? I don't mean Sanford but politicians in general? I mean you have Sanford, Spitzer, McGreevy, Larry Craig and on. Then throw in Dodd, Rangel whatshis name from LA who commandered a NG helicopter to rescue the wads of cash in his freezer. They're ALL corrupt either financially, sexually or both yet in few exceptions they seem to be impervious to being tossed out of office. So while it may be 'news' it really isn't.

First, the canonical song of summer, as much as part of it as lying on a blanket on the sand, smelling the coppertone, and listening to a portable radio which sounds scratchy as you turn up the volume

Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weeniesThen lock the house up, now youre setAnd on the beach you'll see the girls in their bikinisAs cute as ever but they never get em wet

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summerThose days of soda and pretzels and beerRoll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summerYoull wish that summer could always be here

And for me, this is the other song of summer, reminding me of coming back in from the water, lying down, eyes half-closed, watching girls toss a frisbee while a light plane tows a banner up and down the shore.

We're so sorry Uncle AlbertBut we haven't done a bloody thing all dayWe're so sorry Uncle AlbertBut the kettle's on the boil and we're so easily called away

Hand across the water (water)Heads across the skyHand across the water (water)Heads across the skyAdmiral Halsey notified meHe had to have a berth or he couldn't get to seaI had another look and i had a cup of tea and butter pie(the butter wouldn't melt so i put it in the pie)

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Live a little be a gypsy, get around(get around)Get your feet up off the groundLive a little, get aroundLive a little be a gypsy, get around(get around)Get your feet up off the groundLive a little, get around

Given that politicians are so corrupt, you'd think they'd stop running on the morality platforms

I agree. But its not just morality its everything. Like when Obama tells me I can't set my thermostat to 75 but he can set his high enough to grow orchids. Or how I need to drive an oversized cupholder with wheels while they have thier private jets and Suburbans to tote them around.

Does it require a ratified Constitutional Amendment to make Obama King for life, or can a 5 to 4 SCOTUS decision just discover it there all along in the Supremacy clause or the Foreign Treaties are law clause? The fourth of July weekend is upon us and the Demonrats are voting Eternal Socialism upon us to save the earth from "dirty carbon dioxide" while everyone celebrates their (former) independence.The Trillions of dollars added to the cost of being alive and breathing is going to be spent, like Blago spent money, only for political power for The Kings Men.

MadisonMan, the long time till trial may be due to good preparation, but it also involved lots of motions from the defense to delay the thing.

The weak point is that the government's chief witness, Lori Mody, is a bit unstable, in treatment for depression and such, so the defense will use that to attack her credibility. The prosecution did not put her on the stand, and only used tapes from her wired conversations with Jefferson. From what I've read, that can indicate they worry about her, OR that they're holding her as a rebuttal witness should Jefferson take the stand, as everyone assumes he will. Apparently, that might be a more cagey strategy - he'll have to worry about what she can attack in his testimony. Oh, it's all tangled.

It just rained here, dropping the temperature from about 95 to 86. Rapture!

It hit 104 on Tuesday, and that's as high as ever recorded in New Orleans. It's been so miserable here. Our home AC is on 24/7 and barely dents the heat. I walk around campus under a parasol, and that helps some. My car's air conditioner is strong, so it's the best thing in my life right now, and I'm making lots of little carbon footprints all over the city, just taking my time getting to my destination.

It hit 104 on Tuesday, and that's as high as ever recorded in New Orleans.

Holy Cow, that must have been hell on wheels with the humidity!!

I feel for you. My father was born in NOLA and everytime I've been in the summer it was like a giant sweaty sauna. Awful!!

At least when it hits in the hundreds here the humidity is low enough that you can get buy very nicely and cheaply with just an evaporative cooler or 'swamp cooler' as everyone calls it here. No one has air conditioning.

Did they mention this song? Also one of my favorite summertime memories

104 is the highest recorded here, ever, apparently. MadMan explains it well. I can remember being in central Kansas one summer and regularly seeing the bank's temperature display at 105-110, as I rode around on my bike in the near-zero humidity. It was blazing hot, but a different hot.

MM, I kind of thought it might be related to the Ocean, but it sure seems to get hot in Biloxi, which is also close. But I don't live either of those places, so I don't pay any special attention.

I just know it's really hot this week here in Arkansas, but after we had non stop rain for 2 months, I'm rather enjoying it. I'll probably be sick of it by August. And when I get my AC bill next month.

Like Brer Rabbit you have to be born and raised in the briar patch of the South in July and August. I remember spending 3 months in the Pacific Northwest and driving home to Atlanta in August. When we got half-way from Dallas to Louisiana we hit a wall of humidity. It was like being home again. My cousin from Buffalo area came down to Atlanta for a July visit in normal 95f weather, and she wanted to go to the hospital. So I guess it all depends on what is familiar to us.

The Hollywood death triad is Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson. (Ed McMahon doesn't count. His was a slow, stately fade.) The lesson to be drawn from these deaths is that there is no lesson to be drawn from the lives of Hollywood celebrities.